Really 36" barrel... Really?

[Tropical Life]

I agree, it's a generalization and maybe should be avoided, but it has nothing to do with ethnicity and a lot to do with cultural values. I work in the videogame industry and play a lot of paintball - I see the same thing all the time.



What kind of modifications? I can't seem to get a mag over 350 or so without it pissing down the barrel or out the back of the valve...

Long time ago Frizzle dont recall, but I do know the valve was opened up more some how to allow more air to push thru. Thats all the info the guy had given me at the time I was fairly new to the sport.

[ta2maki]

Outrageously long barrels can be fun. Here's a photo of my super sniper gun.

[biggy238]

Crazy People

I played with a bunch of guys one time that had a crazy buddy. Said crazy buddy showed up with an avenger, weedeater goggles and an aluminum collapsible push broom handle, that he would adjust, to make "those long shots".

We play in an industrial setting, and it wasn't to hard to bust his knuckles when that 40" barrel was leading him around the corners.

He absolutely loved getting beat up though. Some people don;t have much going for them. I put one on his chin and we agreed as a group that he had to armor up or go home.

[OneSelfLost]

When I first bought my Minimag, it was leaking all over the place like a sloppy mess. I brought it to the local shop where the guy there teched it up real nice for me (this was when I knew NOTHING about mags, he actually had a parts kit on hand for it, i was impressed).

The first shot outta that gun was a re-ball.. which went THROUGH, yes, THROUGH the first layer of a pair of JT pants.. We both kind stood there, shocked, then had a laugh and he tried to sell me a recently discounted pair of JT pants! haha

Long story short.. whoever I bought this thing off of was an idiot! Some kid out in the boonies, ah well.

[Pneumagger]

Back in the day when we played outlaw ball in the woods (late 90's) our group had 2 tippmans, a spyder, a Raptor, an Automag, an ACI Mavrick, and a Brass Eagle Talon. We used CO2, of course, and shake & bake hoppers... and $100+ cases of paint. Man, was HPA and paint expensive back then.

We typically adjusted velocity on all them together before the games until "they looked about right". We didn't have enough money for a chrono. One day I knocked a buddy out with a headshot using one of the tippmanns (a Prolite, I think). We chronoed it some time later at a real field and it was shooting like 400+ fps when you got it to suck CO2 into the valve.

Ever wanna lay some HOT shots with old school markers?
Use an antisyphon CO2 tank unscrewed 1/2 turn and a nice long unported barrel.

[Runamok]

I've played this game since '91 and Reffed since '93. I have seen it all from 3 ft barrels to hammerhead fins only. I was at Wayne's world one year and a guy with a Spyder,"1"'s there called now had a machine shop and had made himself a 30' barrel. All set up like a 50 bmg and showing it off big time. Come game time he walked out on the field and left the mess in the command post and played with a stock prolite. Intimidation was his main goal. I've been hunted down on a field because I brought a SL=68 to try and everyone knew I was crazy for pumping among the cockers and mags. My Mag used to shoot just as far at 275 fps and I never had leaks or barrel breaks and still broke balls on the other end. Some of these pain happy morons have been pretty much the death of paintball in my area. Now with all the cheap electro's it's all about how much paint can I waste per hit and if it shoots harder all the better. I believe in grow up or get out! M big red chrono goes with me everywhere and I try to teach that "Normal field speed of 280 fps is still around 190MPH. and will still screw up your "buddy" at point blank range. They've never seem to understand the 20 ft rule. If you don't want to surrender that's your choice, at least offer! Rants over. time to put the soap box away.